10 Huge Star Wars Moments That Happened In The Background
4. Black-Saber - Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Back to Rogue One now and its tense finale on Scarif.
Jyn Erso and her crew have discovered that this is where the plans for the Death Star are being kept. They go off on a mission to retrieve the data, which goes really well for them and definitely doesn't end with everyone getting killed...
Obviously there's more than just one set of plans on Scarif; there's a whole building there full of the Empire's deepest and darkest secrets.
Emphasis on the "dark" part.
Whilst scanning the archives, Erso reads out a bunch of different file names. One of them is "Black-Saber", which isn't the only time this concept has been mentioned in Star Wars.
Black-Saber is surely referring to the Darksaber, a powerful ancient lightsaber that was first introduced in the Clone Wars animated show. It is most prominently featured in The Mandalorian, serving as one of the main MacGuffins of the second season.
This line from Rogue One proves that the Empire had knowledge of the saber very early on, which would explain how it fell into the hands of Moff Gideon later down the line.